Helicopter crashes related to oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 885-889

  Baker, Susan P ^a   Shanahan, Dennis F ^a   Haaland, Wren ^a   Brady, Joanne E ^b   Li, Guohua ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^c Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Flight; Pilot error; Weather

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL; PETROLEUM;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; SEA; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FEMALE; FOSSIL FUELS; HUMANS; MALE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PETROLEUM;

EID: 80053327897     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3050.2011     Document Type: Article

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